Interesting company we keep, on our march toward Middle Eastern freedom:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pakistani government, which last week said gang-rape victim Mukhtaran Mai was free to travel, has taken away her passport, a U.S. official said on Tuesday.
“Pakistani officials do have her passport,” said a State Department official who asked not to be named [...]

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You would think that, given the laws of probabilty, Our Boy Flounder would actually answer a direct question once in a while, if only by accident:
Q Is the President concerned about the recruitment being down in his home country, he can’t get — you know, some day you may give a war and no one [...]

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I would love to be the fly on their wall:
A former Marine convicted of trying to contract his wife’s murder says he deserves a light sentence because she squandered his money and wouldn’t give him sex, dinner or clean laundry.
“Like an ivory tower princess, her delusional attitude seemed to be that it was my duty, [...]

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Miss Molly confesses her incredulity regarding the mainstream media:
Here are some aggravating factors. Thomas Friedman, columnist for the New York Times, recently wrote that “liberals” no longer want to talk about the war because we were against it to start with and probably hope it ends in disaster. Good Lord, who does he think we [...]

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Times editorial:
It is nice that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his team feel as if they have achieved closure on their prisoner abuse issues and are ready to move on. The problem is, they are still in deep denial. The Bush administration has not only refused to face the problem squarely, but it is also [...]

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“Concerns”? Yeah, I think you could say that we have some “concerns” about this partisan hack:
WASHINGTON, June 21 - Sixteen Democratic senators called on President Bush to remove Kenneth Y. Tomlinson as head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting because of their concerns that he is injecting partisan politics into public radio and television.

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I can’t wait to go out and play music tonight. This is a big potluck bash with dozens of musicians, and we’ll be singin’ and pickin’ til the cows come home. (I imagine they’ll be wearing socks while hooked up to an orgasm monitor.)
My friends have been bugging me to come out and meet these [...]

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The latest from Iraq via Riverbend (thanks, J.S.):
The price of building materials has gone up unbelievably, in spite of the fact that major reconstruction has not yet begun. I assumed it was because so much of the concrete and other building materials was going
to reinforce the restricted areas. A friend who recently got involved
working [...]

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Chris from Rowhouse Logic sends a letter to Jerry Falwell.

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Big Media Matt agrees with me that the moderate Republicans are worse:
Look, it’s nice that Graham is saying smart, dissenting things about the direction of national policy. But he keeps voting for the policy. Just like Chuck Hagel, Richard Lugar, and the rest of the gang, he has done nothing — absolutely nothing — to [...]

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In my never-ending quest to bring SG readers news you can use, I just noticed this from the orgasm story posted yesterday:
One thing that they found was putting the couples off the task was literally cold feet.
When they gave the couples socks to wear, about 80% of the couples were able to achieve orgasm [...]

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A father walks into his son’s bedroom and warns him, “Son, don’t do that. You’ll go blind.”
The son says, “Uh, Dad, I’m over here.”
Badda-bing!

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I won’t be at Drinking Liberally tonight (I’m going to a party), but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be there. Chuck Pennachio (who’s running for the Democratic senatorial nomination) will be there, and it’s a nice, friendly crowd. If you can’t find the group, ask a waitress or bartender.
UPDATE: SpinDentist says he’s also [...]

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This’ll be fun if it passes:
TRENTON - The state Assembly yesterday voted to create a separate presidential primary in February to give New Jersey voters an early and meaningful say in the next race for the White House.
Under the bill, the presidential primary would be held the last Tuesday in February, a week before the [...]

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Evil or incompetent?
The notion that the president led the country into war through indirection or dishonesty is not the most damaging criticism of the administration. The worst possibility is that the president and his advisers believed their own propaganda. They did not prepare the American people for an arduous struggle because they honestly didn’t expect [...]

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Good times a-comin’:
The end of an inflated housing market will likely lead to a recession after April 2006 that hits hard in Southern California, where so many jobs and so much economic activity are dependent on the real estate market, according to the quarterly UCLA Anderson Forecast.
Economists at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management said in [...]

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Still doing God’s work:
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Conservative religious leader Reverend Jerry Falwell is giving evangelicals credit for putting President George Bush in office last year.
The Lynchburg minister told the Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Nashville yesterday that the Christian group now has its eye on defeating Hillary Clinton if she runs in the next presidential election.
Falwell [...]

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Hard line to draw here, especially if you’re someone who gets an erroneous diagnosis:
AUGUSTA - The mental health community is divided over a proposed new law that would require some people with mental illness to take prescribed psychiatric medications or face involuntary admission to a state hospital.
The initiative, known as “community commitment,” had all-but-unanimous [...]

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Professor Cole:
Moreover, there is a real question as to whether you will ever get the troops of the new Iraqi government to fight in a thoroughgoing way on behalf of what they mostly think of as an imperial power (the US). It turns out that a lot of the officers in the South Vietnamese Army [...]

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Instead of blogging, Digby really ought to be writing for the Atlantic or Harper’s. But hey, this is cheaper:
While the press may find all this as hilarious as George W. Bush does, the DSMs show that Bush knew a year before the war that Saddam didn’t present a threat — and the public record shows [...]

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Arianna Huffington:
Here are the number of news segments that mention these stories: (from a search of the main news networks’ transcripts from May 1-June 20).
* ABC News: “Downing Street Memo”: 0 segments; “Natalee Holloway”: 42 segments; “Michael Jackson”: 121 segments.
* CBS News: “Downing Street Memo”: 0 segments; “Natalee Holloway”: 70 segments; “Michael Jackson”: 235 segments.
* [...]

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Matt Yglesias:
Fascinating as I find Katie Holmes’ seduction by a celebrity pseudo-religion and the inordinate influence that petty hucksters have over the conservative movement, I’ve long been more intrigued by the fact that one important player on the American right is, quite literally, the leader of a deranged cult hell-bent on world domination aiming at [...]

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Hey, happy Summer Solstice!

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Kevin has a good idea on preventing identity theft.

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There goes that great Bush economy again:
A closely watched gauge of future business activity fell more than expected in May, indicating slower economic growth may lie ahead this year, a private research group said yesterday.

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Gee, maybe Joe Biden’s trying to act like a Democrat, after all:
WASHINGTON, June 20 - For the second time in a month, Senate Democrats blocked a vote on Monday evening on the nomination of John R. Bolton to be ambassador to the United Nations, raising the possibility that President Bush will circumvent the confirmation process [...]

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Blame the liberals. Really.

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Jo over at Democratic Veteran recaps a story about a father who bought $6oo worth of equipment for his Marine son before being deployed to Iraq, and has something to add:
So hey, all you fucked up wingnut pussies who are so het up about Dick Durbin, care to explain why your fat-ass republican masters who [...]

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Okay, it’s National Orgasm Amnesty Week. Everyone needs to “come clean” about what’s working for them and have a frank, honest discussion with their partners.
Yeah, right.
I was once involved with a so-called “educated” man (God knows why - why I was involved with him, I mean) who refused to believe any of the “hundreds of [...]

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An op-ed by Sibel Edmunds:
ALEXANDRIA, VA — (OfficialWire) — 06/20/05 — Over four years ago, more than four months prior to the September 11 terrorist attacks, during April 2001, a long-term FBI informant/asset who had been providing the bureau with information since 1990, provided two FBI agents and a translator with specific information regarding a [...]

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